228th Street SE widening grant agreement was scheduled for the April 15 meeting

What the records say

In materials published ahead of the April 15, 2025 meeting, the record said the widening of 228th Street SE was scheduled to take its next funding step. The agenda item proposed a resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign a second supplement to the Local Agency Agreement with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for widening 228th Street SE from 35th Avenue SE to 39th Avenue SE ¹. The project would widen the street from three lanes to four, with intersection improvements, sidewalks, bike and pedestrian facilities, lighting, signals and signal interconnect ¹. The project is at 90 percent design, and approval of the supplement would allow it to move forward to the right-of-way phase ¹.

• The proposed resolution would obligate a maximum of $1,218,785 in federal Surface Transportation Block Grant funds for the widening ¹.
• It would also commit up to $245,525 in local matching funds, with Snohomish County contributing 75 percent of the local match for the right-of-way phase ¹.
• The recommended action was to authorize the City Manager to execute the Local Agency Agreement supplement with WSDOT ¹.
• Approval would move the project into its right-of-way phase, which the cost estimate describes as nine property acquisitions and 14 temporary construction easements along the corridor ¹.

Why it matters

This is the funding step that moves the 1,800-foot widening from design into its right-of-way phase ¹. The record obligates up to $1,218,785 in federal Surface Transportation Block Grant funds plus a $245,525 local match, and notes Snohomish County is covering 75 percent of that match ¹. The right-of-way phase is what directly touches residents: the city's cost estimate lists nine property acquisitions and 14 temporary construction easements along the corridor ¹. The city was required to obligate the grant funds no later than June 1, 2025 ¹. Construction timing and the full build-out are not established in the record ¹.

What changed / what's next

• The agenda proposed a second supplement to the WSDOT Local Agency Agreement, authorizing the City Manager to obligate federal grant funds and commit the local match to move the 228th Street SE widening (35th to 39th Avenues SE) from design into its right-of-way phase ¹.
• The packet indicates the additional $218,785 in federal funds was still being finalized, with a PSRC email in early March saying an update was still pending, so the full maximum award was not confirmed in these records ¹.
• The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome ¹.